高级英语I

赵佰儒

目录

  • 1 Lesson1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille
    • 1.1 Lead-in and Background Knowledge
    • 1.2 Text Introduction and Organization
    • 1.3 Text Analysis
    • 1.4 Exercises and Quiz
  • 2 Lesson2 Hiroshima—the Liveliest City in Japan
    • 2.1 Lead-in and Background Information
    • 2.2 Text Introduction and Organization
    • 2.3 Text Analysis
    • 2.4 Exercises and Quiz
  • 3 Lesson 4The Trial That Rocked the World
    • 3.1 Lead-in and Background Information
    • 3.2 Text Introduction and Organization
    • 3.3 Text Analysis
    • 3.4 Exercises and Quiz
  • 4 Lesson5 The Libido for the Ugly
    • 4.1 Lead-in and Background Information
    • 4.2 Text Introduction and Organization
    • 4.3 Text Analysis
    • 4.4 Exercises and Quiz
  • 5 Lesson6 Mark Twain—Mirror of America(Exerpts)
    • 5.1 Lead-in and Background Information
    • 5.2 Text Introductioin and Organization
    • 5.3 Text Analysis
    • 5.4 Exercises and Quiz
  • 6 Lesson 14 Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the USSR
    • 6.1 Lead-in and Background Information
    • 6.2 Text Introduction and Organization
    • 6.3 Text Analysis
    • 6.4 Exercises and Quiz
Text Introduction and Organization
II. Background Information

1. Henry Louis Mencken

 (1880--1956)American educator, author, critic

His works:

The American Language  1918

Prejudices     (6 vols) 1919--1927

Happy days

Newspaper Days                        1940--1943 autobiography

Heathen Days

25 Books and thousands of articles

2. Libido 

concept originated by Sigmund Freud to signify the instinctual physiological or psychic energy. 

   Emotional energy; sexual desire

 * a special psychoanalytic term meaning psychic energy generally; 

 * or specifically basic form of psychic energy, comprising the positive, loving instincts and manifested variously at different stages of personality development. 

    精神能量的一种基本形式，包含积极的爱的本能，并在性格发展的不同阶段中表现出来

III. Text Introduction & Organization

3.1 Text Introduction 


3.2 Text Organization 

Part I  (para 1~2) 

the general impression of Westmoreland  rich and ugly

Part II  (para 3~5)

the description of the design and color of the houses

Part III (para. 6~8) 

the reason and cause why the people in Westmoreland love such ugly houses

Part IV (para. 9):Conclusion

Mencken is being very critical of the American race and the American society, which hates beauty as well it hates truth

3.3 Thesis

 ---By revealing the ugliness of Westmoreland,the author attacks the whole American race--- a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, that lusts to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth. 

Why?

He wants to demonstrate that what he describes has psychological and scientific foundation. Usually, people love things beautiful, but a group of people in the US love things ugly for its own sake (because they are ugly) Why? There must be some scientific and psychological reasons.